Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Sep 20 14:07:01 UTC 2011


On 09/20/2011 03:47 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 15:01:06 +0200,
>    Nils Philippsen<nils at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to see a discussion about how we can ensure -- within
>> reasonable limits -- that e.g. bumping a library's SONAME is followed by
>> dependent components being rebuilt and included with the providing
>> component in one update.
>
> This should be easier to do now with the (relatively) new way to set up
> build overrides.

These are hardly applicable, if several maintainers are involved or if 
non-trivial technical difficulties arise.

Ralf



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